Voidgod characters

Appears from the start

Returns to Talon's Keep with Mercy and Asher after Araphel's return. Maulkin arms the Dvergar, proposes a coalition defense at the Shattered Bastion, and searches for a way to stop a foe whose power may permanently destroy Eternals.

Appears from the start

A Solar Eternal, archer, and trusted companion of Maulkin. After Araphel's return, Mercy accompanies Maulkin and Asher to Talon's Keep and tells Gunnhild that Saren is dead.

Appears from the start

An Eternal mage allied with Maulkin and Mercy. Asher accompanies them to Talon's Keep after Araphel's return, while the Dvergar use the Waystones to evacuate to the Shattered Bastion.

Appears from the start

Maulkin's former partner, whose reported death predates the opening of this book. Her loss remains central to Maulkin's anger toward Briar and to the personal cost he carries into the war against Araphel.

Appears from the start

A returned divine enemy whose advance threatens Amaranth and can permanently end Eternals. The Dvergar and their allies abandon Talon's Keep and organize the Shattered Bastion specifically to resist his coming war.

First appears in chapter 4

The figure associated with a floating Alvaren city above the battlefield near Saren's grave. Maulkin's scouts discover that forces from the city are imprisoning Inyoka and taking them toward flesh forges.

Appears from the start

The Dvergar's operational leader. Gunnhild confirms that her people have chosen to join the war and oversees their evacuation from Talon's Keep to the Shattered Bastion.

First appears in chapter 11

An ancient Eternal whom Maulkin believes may remember Araphel's earlier return. The ruined hilt of Leofric's sword allows Maulkin to locate him in a distant poisonous mire, prompting a new expedition in search of knowledge.

Appears from the start

The deceased owner of Talon's Keep. His surviving research includes inimicus, a powerful anti-magic substance that may offer Maulkin a weapon against dangerous magic.

First appears in chapter 3

A Dvergar volunteer who joins Maulkin's reconnaissance party as it leaves the Shattered Bastion for the Serpent's Gate. She travels with the mixed group of Dvergar, Shagnar Fawn, and human scouts under Maulkin's command.

First appears in chapter 17

A fire-using defender who fights beside Maulkin and Asher during the attack on the Bastion. The archer holds off Alvaren attackers while Asher counters Briar's lightning and Maulkin turns the inimicus against the enemy force.

First appears in chapter 2

The leader of the Shagnar Fawn occupying the Shattered Bastion. She confirms her people's compact with the local humans, defuses their first confrontation with Maulkin, and commits the Fawn to defend the territory until Araphel falls.

First appears in chapter 3

One of two Ambergrit Dvergar twins who volunteer for Maulkin's three-day mission toward the Serpent's Gate. The pair joins a mixed scouting party sent to investigate the forces gathering beyond the Shattered Bastion's wall.

First appears in chapter 6

A captive Eternal found alive within an Alvaren flesh forge. The victim has been incorporated into the machinery as its living source of power, revealing that the Alvaren are turning missing Eternals into tools.

First appears in chapter 3

A local farmer who volunteers to represent the humans on Maulkin's three-day reconnaissance mission. He joins the mixed scouting party despite having no evident combat experience.

First appears in chapter 10

An armored assassin formed from a fragment of Araphel and adapted to suppress Maulkin's Artifice. It attacks Maulkin near the waystone with bladed limbs and a power capable of permanent death, but he tears away its tail blades, turns them against its soul, and destroys it.

First appears in chapter 16

The authority Maulkin encounters after dying with the inimicus bound to his soul. Instead of returning him to his newly made shrine at the Bastion, Death sends him away, leaving the destination of his resurrection uncertain.

First appears in chapter 25

A female Eternal involved in Araphel's first defeat. Araphel confirms her part only while dueling Maulkin and refuses to identify her, leaving the person who completed the earlier binding unknown.

First appears in chapter 30

A senior solar goddess visiting the fortress of the solar war god. After finding that god already slain, she faces Maulkin, Mercy, and the returned Saren as they bring their campaign into the divine realm.

First appears in chapter 30

A solar god whose heavenly fortress Saren reaches after recovering her memories. He is already dead when the visiting solar mother goddess arrives and Saren directs her attention to his body.

First appears in chapter 31

A surviving member of the old pantheon who intervenes during the battle in the divine palace. She traps Maulkin and Mercy in webbing tied to their emotions, attempting to hold them for the other gods.

First appears in chapter 31

A dragon fighting in defense of the solar leader during the assault on the divine palace. The dragon enters the same final struggle in which Maulkin, Mercy, and Saren confront the remaining old gods.

First appears in chapter 31

The last solar authority confronted in the divine palace. He opposes Maulkin, Mercy, and Saren in his own domain while the remaining divine defenders gather around him.

First appears in chapter 31

The final old god to enter the struggle in the divine palace. He attacks Maulkin's group and declares an intention to consume all surviving life, making coexistence with the new order impossible.

First appears in chapter 24

A winged, tailed, fawn-like visitor summoned through a portal during the siege of the Shattered Bastion. The outsider creates a vast number of duplicates and commits the resulting aerial force to the defense.